It is all about time and indeterminacy. It was wrongly understood as chaos or confusion but it is quite the contrary. John Cage's work in any field he explored is obsessively composed and organised. He turned to the I ching, one of the oldest chinese classic texts of cosmology and philosophy to devise random laws of composition. A structured method for creating music or prose through chance operations. I have just discovered Eddie Kohler's website Indeterminacy. He is a professor of computer science at Harvard and his site archives 190 of John Cage's paragraph-long stories. Each story was devised by the musician so that they can be read aloud at a rate of one a minute. Beware it’s addictive to click and get a new story, then to click again, and again, and again. Matthew Rose'sarticle andThe Rand Corporation, John Cage and the I Ching